Word: rival
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Russian lady named Kowalewski occupies the chair of mathematics at the high school in Stockholm, an institution which is said to promise to become a rival of the Universities of Upsala and Lund...
...English Universities four-fifths of the students enter earnestly into athletic sports, because each man recognizes its physical utilities to himself. The true interest of a young man engaged in college training is very small in which beats of two nines picked from rival institutions, but almost wholly in whether he is himself developing and conserving the physical resources which carry him through a long and useful life...
...will be very large or exercise a marked influence upon the spirit of the college until the resources of the university both physical and intellectual are largely increased,-until Harvard can offer instruction in purely liberal and humanitarian studies equal to the best obtainable in Europe; until she can rival Oxford or Beriin or Paris...
...objection to this rule is that it seems injudicious to attempt to coerce other colleges into an agreement from which their better judgment shrinks; that it lessens the number of possible rivals; and that it may prevent us from meeting at all the representatives of a college which has always been our for3most rival in every sport, and in the contests with which the greatest interest and enthusiasm have been shown...
...Coaching by professionals cannot of itself make the motive of undergraduates mercenary, and nothing can prevent the motive of undergraduates being the desire to win, if possible. It seems, too, that it is a mistake to suppose that the employment of a professional coach by one college forces its rival to employ a professional. In rowing, the introduction of the "English" stroke was due to the discovery of it at Oxford, and all sort of experiments with professional coaches have failed to induce a belief that for college races any professional stroke can be found that is better...